Exhilarating early wander thanks to a mix of sunshine and showers ... which yesterday produced a rainbow ... a drop in temperature meant snow, drier and prettier than rain ... beautiful settling on the hills ... check Weardale Noticeboard on FB for pics ... and reflections on yesterday's conversation with fellow philosopher and inner space explorer ... and a gift for the library - the dvd "What the Bleep" which makes a good attempt to explain what's going on ... or at least clearly shows that all is not as it first appears ... that the quantum world is one of possibilities, maybe infinite ... that "reality" is contingent on the observer ... everything connects to everything else ...and lots of other weird stuff which has to be experienced to be comprehended ... none more so than the source of it all, which is not to be named or described .... from which we are not separate ...
The good news is that we humans are capable of so much more than we normally believe .... but only as long as we believe bigger ... and that the gift of the dvd itself adds energy to the Retreat House and its library ... big ideas generally not lacking here, more the patience as they unfold ...
As for the philosophy, these things have been said before, since the dawn of consciousness, or language, which may not be the same thing ... religions arise from the revelations, forget first that "the Tao which can be described is not the immortal Tao", then, having begun the naming and describing, that all is part of the whole and the whole is present in all [if all is divine and the divine is in all, why are we humans thinking so small?] ... and having separated, the original sin, the deluded human minds create suffering ... along with all the other wonderful and not so wonderful things which are part of human doing ...
Speculation on the evolution of homo sapiens continues with another book for the library, soon to arrive via Hive, the ethical alternative to that which need not be named ... after all, what's the point of free choice if we keep buying from the very corporate entities we criticise?
Speculation on whether or not we have free choice continues also ... since experimental evidence shows a time lapse between an action and its ideation, the action coming prior to the thought ... though thoughts themselves have never actually been identified, only areas of the brain associated with the action to be tested ... perhaps the impulse or intuition precedes the action and the brain activity creates, post hoc, the rationale? Leading to the next leap ... is the mind in the brain anyway?
Looking forward to some feedback from a qualified cognitive psychologist ... what's the chances of one of those reading this blog?
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